Our purpose is to explore an alternative way to give new foundations to the theory of corporate finance and governance. The definition we give of corporate finance considers capital-budgeting as central. The shortcomings of the contract theory of the firm result in proposing new foundations to...

Unsatisfied with the dominating shareholders'view, that we find unfitted to build a relevant theory of corporate governance, we propose an enlarged definition of the value which may be called, the stakeholder value. This definition and the associated measure are supposed to be more fitted to the...

Depuis les dernières crises dont elle est tenue, au moins en partie, responsable, la finance est considérée comme une science maudite. On l'accuse d'être coupée de la pratique, incapable de prendre en compte le comportement réel des individus et, chose plus grave, de rendre ces derniers...